Enlightenment Productions is multi-media entertainment company based in London and founded in partnership between producer Hanan Kattan and writer and director Shamim Sarif in 2001.
[1] Shamim Sarif wrote her debut novel, The World Unseen,[2] which explores issues of race, gender and sexuality,[3] which she later adapted into an Enlightenment Productions film starring Lisa Ray and Sheetal Sheth.
Sarif adapted her other novel into an I Can't Think Straight, a 2008 romance film about a London-based Jordanian of Palestinian descent, Tala, who is preparing for an elaborate wedding.
Enlightenment Productions' 2011 film, The House of Tomorrow, is a documentary about the 2010 TEDx Holy Land Conference, which brought together Arab and Israeli women to discuss issues of mutual interest in technology, entertainment, and design.
[16] The film starring Mission Impossible 5 Swedish actress Rebecca Ferguson,[17][18][19][20] Game of Thrones actor Charles Dance, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Antje Traue, Sam Reid, Anthony Head and Trudie Styler, was released in UK on 15 April 2016.